From sketch to finished page

The original idea was to do a comic book page in a realistic drawing style.
I started to like the rough sketch, so I decided to go for a more expressive and experimental style.
Inspired by Skyrim.

Studies

A study based on a Da Vinci painting.
Not completely accurate at this stage, but the exercise has served its purpose.

A study on The Joker, unfinished.

Level Up!

Another new year coming, so I just wanted to give my best wishes to everyone involved in New Concept Comics and to all the visitors worldwide!
Let's finish this 2011 with a little overview of the things done since my last post, including: storyboards, test pages, color tests, and a large etc, for screen writers and comic book writers.
This also includes a new project I'm working on, I won't say anything about it yet, but it has to do with my previous post.
Thanks everyone, enjoy the holydays and see you soon!

New Page

Here's a comic page I've been doing lately, inspired by the video game Crysis 2,
simply to try a new style and to expand my gallery (no profit intended with the use of the characters).
But, Crytek... maybe interested in a comic? ;P

Exercising...

Process of a narrative exercise I did recently.
The idea was to take a page from an author who inspired me and reinterpret it and draw it in my own style.
I took an example from the great Mike Parobeck (1965-1996) from his work on "Batman Adventures".
This page will be on display this year in the local event "comics' week" (Mar del Plata, Argentina).

Practicing, practicing, practicing...

This is some of the new stuff that I've been preparing during the last days.
I've been practicing several styles and reviewing and polishing some aspects of my artwork. So, these illustrations end up being some kind of 'rehearsal'.
More illustrations and sequential pages are on their way too.

New projects

Hi there, I've been pretty busy these last days. I'm right now working on 2 projects besides Tiny Life, so here I'm showing a picture of one of them.

I can't talk a lot about them, so barely speaking, the color page it's for a project where different scenes from movies are taken and crazy twists are given, plus original scripts of the creators.

About the other project, the story consists of a group of women who foment a rebellion.

By the way, another year is about to pass. I'd like to send my best wishes for the next year for everyone out there reading this. Thanks for your visit.

Page Sample

Here's another page that I've been doing these days, it's not related to the previous post, this one is a test for a work.

Superhero Comic Sample

Here's a sample of the new style I'm developing, in this case it's superhero oriented, but I think I can make it pretty flexible for different kind of stories.
I'll be probably working on 4 pages more.
Anyway, I'll still be using my crosshatching style when could be needed.

Practice

I've been drawing and coloring this illustration based on a picture of an actress, just for practice and exercise.

Styles samples

Hi, here's a sample of character design done for a work. It's more or less according to Ken Akamatsu’s style.
The other is more Toon, and it's also for a work. I've uploaded them to show more variety of the styles I can do.

New drawings

These are some new drawings I've been doing in these days. They are completely done fast on the Wacom tablet, and also vectorized. I was looking for a modern style, maybe for using it in a new short story.

Submission

During these days I've been preparing five pages for a submission. This is the first page.

I'll be working in the next days in a new short story for submission to different places. I'll be trying to make each page in two different styles, one 'mainstream' and the other my personal style.

In order to achieve that, I'll have to do a lineal drawing style and consider it like the mainstream style, then I could apply lights and shadows, textures and different effects to transform it into my personal style. We'll see what happens.

In the other hand, I'll start to finish some old scripts to have them ready for a writer submission.

Superheroic sequential

A short story for expanding my gallery with superheroic stuff. The two main characters here shown are © 2008 Marvel Characters, Inc.

Self-portrait

My first attempt at vector art using Photoshop.

It's a self-portrait though I was younger at the time of that picture.

I'll be experimenting a bit more with this to see what happens.

New Gallery

I've added a new art gallery at my ComicSpace to show some sketches and different styles of artwork.

Hopefully, soon I'll have more material to put there.

Teamwork

I've been working hand-to-hand with the CableNube's members in order to create a 2-pages test for an editor these last days .

We made the short script and the layouts, then the sketches, the rendering and the inks.

Once all was done, we add to it some edition with Photoshop.

It took about 22 hours of work, and this was a great experience to work as a team.

Code: Humans: Page 1 test 2

Here's a new version of the first page. I think that I've corrected the failures of the previous version.

About colors, I think they could be necessary at a certain moment of the story, but in the meantime the grayscale accomplishes his objectives.

About the text boxes, I've tried to not interrupt too much the drawings.

Code: Humans: Page 1 test

Here's a little preview of a test that I've done in the first page of 'Code: Humans'. I've tried different coloring styles and also grayscales, and possibly I'll take this option.

Anyway this won't be the final version yet, the character's legs aren't clear and I hope to add more lights and shadows later.

I've added the text boxes just to see how it looks, but I'll have to work in how they're located across the page.

Another new project

I've just finished the pencils of the first 5 pages for the project 'Deathmatch UK' written by Paul Holmes. The project is going to be submitted to various publishers. We'll see what happens soon.

Here's a preview of the first page, I've done the pencils, and Rodrigo Mavica the inks.